I often feel anxious where other people might not, or fear when there is no real, practical threat. I am finding the real fear and anxiety in myself and others about the uncertainty in the UK's future outright confusing.
How does one untangle one's mental health condition from the news on an historic day like this? Does one even try? I feel angry and frightened on behalf of those of us who rely on publicly-funded support to help us with our health and wellbeing however you definite this relationship, mental health, physical health, social support and so on. I feel lucky to live in this country and have had enormous amounts of support from both the NHS and the private sectors in the past for which i feel inexorably guilty, but there is not a lot I can do today about having received that support in the past when I was, in the language of psychiatry, too unwell to ask for it. My current support are great. At the same time, I also feel frightened and anxious for myself and my family and friends today and now, and I am quite confused by all of these strong emotions in myself and others. The places I go to for certainty and security, are now anxious and frightened too.
Can anyone relate? At times like this, does my history and diagnosis and so on become irrelevant? We with the mental health diagnoses are no longer the ill ones, in a nation that is itself unwell? Or something poetic like that?
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erinaceus · 24/06/2016 12:23
I think probably don't even try to untangle it. You sound very sensible and self aware. I hope you are feeling a bit better even now than when you posted?
I felt very anxious this morning and slightly panicked I was succumbing to old MH problems so you aren't alone. It is a BIG day. I am feeling a lot calmer now, though it is scary. And lots of people are a bit scared, including many who are not MH sufferers.
Be kind to your self 
My anxiety has been high today. The looming doom feeling has been lurking all day. I didn't even realise it until a colleague asked me if I was ok-realised I'd been quite quiet, most unusual! Couldn't stop thinking about the world my DCs will have to cope in.
I thank my lucky stars for citalopram, sunshine and cake today.
Thank you everyone for your responses. 1234hello not trying to untangle it sounds like what I need to do. I intellectualise my emotional responses - sort of self-aware to a fault - and can usually tolerate the anxiety and fear in the knowledge I am safe even if I do not feel it. Now it seems like the fear and anxiety are utterly utterly rational and I cannot comfort myself.
Today is better. Spending time with people instead of isolating myself is helping. Yesterday I was alone all day until the evening when I went to see friends. After that and reading your responses I feel much better. Today I have plans as well. I need to be with people. I am grateful for MN and for WhatsApp as well 
Thank you everyone. Sometimes it helps just to not feel so alone. to all, and yes, medication and going outside, where the world is still going on, for today.
I am also amazed at the humour that has emerged. I continue to be astonished by people's ability to satirise catastrophe and for some reason this gives me hope too.
Fairy - thank you for that. Perversely, makes me feel so much better that others are in the same boat
Thank you everyone for posting. I agree with Scribblegirl, just knowing that other people are feeling similar to me is helpful.
sobbing and saying we'll never be able to afford to have children
Yes, I had a similar sort of meltdown. You may or may not have children, which was always true, and this does not stop the feelings right now, that is what I find. And being worried about big things like political stability plays into making me more prickly about the little things, like the wedding you describe panicking at. That is how I feel anyway.
Then I feel selfish for worrying about my mental health at a time of national crisis, and so it goes. I do think this national distress feeds directly into individual distress and if you are already fragile it can make you feel worse. A colleague described it as feeling like a bereavement. I do not feel the same as him but I do feel frightened and anxious.
What I'd really like to do - as usual - is turn everything off and stay in bed until the feeling passes...I am instead settling for skin picking, obsessive thoughts and wine.
I do not hate you, for all that you wrote that you hate yourself when you are in this state. It is just a state, it is not you, said the pot to the kettle and all that.
Take care of yourselves, everybody.
colouringinagain
I hear you. You are self-aware. You are aware of the impact that the news is having on you. If you would like to talk about it, we can listen and maybe make suggestions.
You sound like a good mum because you are self-aware
ericaceous I can't tell you how much it means to feel heard. Thank you
I watched the making of the Olympic opening ceremony tonight and it's just made me feel sadder 
I am happy you feel heard. You feel heard because you are heard. By me. Here.
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DeepDarkPit I am so sorry to hear this. The referendum has shaken the country up in so many ways .
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